BloodHorse.com

Courtesy of Rob Fundter, The Amateur CapperRACHEL ALEXANDRA has been the best horse on the track in each of her four starts this year.  The compelling question in the 134th Preakness Stakes is whether the filly is more horse than her male counterparts.  Pimlico morning line maker FRANK CARULLI believes she is, installing her as the ...

I stayed up to watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and was glad to see Leno interview Borel. The interview touched on Borels days at the bush tracks and has some fun insight into how Borel got started in racing. In addition to this being found on Hulu. NBC has an entire Hulu.com channel devoted to the derby, and hopefully they will change it to a ...

From the sale of Rachel Alexandra, to Calvin Borel opting off the Derby winner in favor of the Oaks winner, to the firestorm caused by a pair of owners threatening to block the filly from the Preakness, the past week has certainly sparked a lot of debate. No matter what you opinions are on all of the above, one thing is for sure - this is ...

Part of equine welfare is quality of life.  News stories on the subject tend to focus on the welfare of racehorses at the track, and it's no surprise:  these are the horses in the public eye. The welfare of Thoroughbreds in training is much more visible than it is for horses boarded at private farms, including broodmare farms. But less ...

Between classics, it was a relatively quiet weekend in the U.S. One race that might have Triple Crown implications, however, was contested: the Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) went to Belmont Stakes (gr. I) hopeful Charitable Man (TrueNicks A). The victory of Charitable Man continues an outstanding season for his sire, Lemon Drop Kid ...

Last weekend saw the first two French classics of the season - the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (both Fr-I) -- in the books. The result was a great one for the Irish National Stud with the filly's event going to Elusive Wave, from the second crop of Elusive City, and the colt's classic falling to Silver Frost ...

Who will win this year's Preakness? Who will finish last? Now is your chance to see how your picks stack up against the rest of the BloodHorse.com community. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/preaknessorderoffinish.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in post ...

By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable, LLC  Most every year, there’s a local angle to the Preakness.  After all, in this faded era, the Preakness stands out as the middle jewel of the Triple Crown — and, to Maryland horsemen, our middle jewel. The Derby, of course, will always be the Derby.  But to Marylanders, the Preakness is ...

(Originally published in the May 16, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    Speaking to shareholders May 7 via conference call, Churchill Downs Inc. president and chief executive officer Bob Evans said, “The solution for tracks without slots is to ...

The 1,600-meter French classic race run this past weekend is officially the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (Fr-I) but is probably better-known here in the States as the ''French Two Thousand Guineas.''  The English-speaking world similarly ''translates'' the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and the Prix du Jockey Club (both Fr-I) as the ''French ...